Couchbase. the cloud database platform company has formed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Under this agreement, Couchbase and AWS have committed to offer customers integrated go-to-market activities, commercial incentives and technology integrations. This includes migrating workloads to the Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering on AWS. In addition to extending Capella App Services to run on AWS edge services.
Due to trends like digital transformation, there is customer demand for building enterprise applications faster, easier and more affordably across cloud and edge environments, which in turn creates a market need for cloud databases. According to Gartner, “the database management system (DBMS) market saw strong growth of 22.3% in 2021. Primarily driven by cloud database platform as a service (dbPaaS), whose share has reached nearly 50% of the overall market.”
Developing flexibility for developers
Couchbase Capella delivers database flexibility for developers and performance at scale for modern applications. The company says with compelling price performance, that is fast and cost-efficient because Capella is fully managed and automated. Customers can focus on development, improving their applications, delivering highly interactive and engaging experiences and reducing time to market.
As a result of this strengthened relationship, customers can easily run Capella on AWS. Furthermore, they can build modern applications that are always on and can extend anywhere. From cloud to edge and everywhere in between. The adoption of Capella helps customers build modern applications in the cloud, at the edge, on mobile and IoT devices. Using the language, framework and platform of their development teams’ choice.
“GroundHog customers demand high performance, flexibility and availability,” said Satish Penmetsa, CEO of GroundHog. “With Couchbase on AWS, we can automatically scale to meet the demands of our users around the world. This allows reliable delivery of service and consistent performance to keep users engaged and connected.”
Enabling cloud and edge innovations for customers
“AWS is an industry leader paving the way for cloud and edge innovation for customers,” said Matt McDonough, senior vice president of business development and strategy at Couchbase. “Couchbase and AWS are both committed to providing customers with the agility, flexibility and scale that their development teams want. This agreement will make it even more seamless for customers to start building premium experience apps with Capella on AWS.”
This agreement builds on the existing relationship between Capella on AWS. It sees Couchbase deploying Couchbase on AWS infrastructure at the edge. Couchbase and AWS are expected to work together on shared go-to-market initiatives and developer engagement activities. This is expected to facilitate the adoption of Capella on AWS. The collaboration will also support Couchbase with scale and reach in its objective to further expand into key verticals.
“Since working with Couchbase, we’ve witnessed the impact that they can deliver to customers’ digital transformation efforts,” said Julia Chen, VP of partner core at AWS. “Combining AWS’ capabilities with Couchbase’s database platform helps organisations to innovate and build next-gen applications quickly without compromise. We are delighted to work with Couchbase to enhance the customer experience.”
Enterprise Times: What this means for business.
It will be interesting to see the next chapter of this partnership between Couchbase and AWS. The agreement is expected to deliver innovative solutions that enable developers to more easily build modern distributed applications. Both in the cloud and at the edge. The collaboration can facilitate customer migrations to Couchbase Capella on AWS. This should make it even more seamless for brands and retailers to build superior experience apps with Capella on AWS. Brands and retailers will have to wait and see how this partnership will provide UX dividends for customers.
